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RFC 1334 - 1.2. Terminology

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### 1.2. Terminology

This document frequently uses the following terms:

authenticator

  The end of the link requiring the authentication. The authenticator specifies the authentication protocol to be used in the Configure-Request during Link Establishment phase.

peer

  The other end of the point-to-point link; the end which is being authenticated by the authenticator.

silently discard

  This means the implementation discards the packet without further processing. The implementation SHOULD provide the capability of logging the error, including the contents of the silently discarded packet, and SHOULD record the event in a statistics counter.

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RFC 1334 - 1.2. Terminology